Chapter 510: Mysterious...
Today, Catherine woke up and sat on the dresser. She swore she had never taken care of her appearance so well.
Even when he attended the ball at the Ilvermorny Academy of Magic, he had never been so attentive.
About half a month ago, Nicholas told Catherine that a British guest would be visiting him in the United States, and that she needed to meet him as Nicholas's heir.
Yes, heirs.
Nicholas was rich, even richer than the rest of the family combined, and oddly his relatives, friends, and even family didn't know he was rich.
All they knew was that Nicholas was a reclusive alchemist.
In the American wizarding world, alchemists are not a popular profession, the threshold for alchemy is very high, and alchemy experiments are regarded by most wizards as money-burning experiments, tied with potions experiments for the first place.
Moreover, the U.S. Department of Magic monitors wizards very strictly, and even if they can actually research anything, it is difficult to say whether they will be useful.
So, alchemists in the United States are very scarce, and most of them are poor.
But, Nicholas is just rich.
One day, while Catherine was spending her summer at Nicholas' farm, Nicholas asked her if she wanted to be his heir.
When it was, Catherine hesitated.
Catherine is a genius with a bright future, and although he loves alchemy, she doesn't gamble with her future.
She never forgot that Nicholas seemed to see through her thoughts, telling herself that as long as she became his heir, she would never lack a pot in this life, and she would be able to spend a lot of time on alchemy in the future.
Eventually, Catherine made an unbreakable vow to her grandfather, and it was on that day that she realized how rich her grandfather really was.
As the only wizard in the Americas who sells Floo powder, this unique business needs to share half of the profits, and the rest is owned by Nicholas alone.
Not long ago, Catherine, who graduated from the Ilvermorny Academy of Magic and Wizardry, received Nicholas's first gift, a house.
After Nicholas dies someday in the future, he will inherit most of Nicholas's estate.
Honestly, no one hates this job.
In the United States, most wizards are actually very realistic, they like to be on par with Zhuo Guo, and they usually rush to the US Ministry of Magic to have a good paying job.
Catherine didn't really like that place, and if she entered the Ministry of Magic, her only advantage was a good transcript, and her starting point was not even as good as those students who had a little connection, which would not help her much in the future.
So, Catherine quickly fell in love with the job, and she would have enough to support her dreams and use her talents instead of doing nothing at the desk.
His father, and even his family, were not able to receive the honor, not only because they were not talented, but also because they were unwilling to work on it.
As the spokesperson of the American Floo Powder, it needs to be kept absolutely secret, and no one knows about it except for the heir or assistant.
Catherine remembers that when she was very young, something big happened in the wizarding world.
The U.S. Department of Magic once tried to figure out who was selling Floo powder, and even took a house-elf from Floo Blanc, trying to knock something out of its mouth.
As a result, the house-elf died.
The wizard who killed the house-elf also disappeared shortly after.
Everyone thought that the Floo Company had killed the wizard, but they didn't have any evidence, not even one to find.
Because no one knows who is making and supplying Floo powder, and the loyal house-elves can't pry anything out.
The wizards, misled by the New York Ghost News, rushed into the company and found that there was no one there.
Yes, the Floo Bang company on Wizard Street in New York closed its doors and got out.
At the same time, it also stopped supplying Floo powder to the United States.
After Floo Powder was out of stock, there were no more Floo Fans on the market, and the wizards were dumbfounded.
It's a big deal.
The U.S. Department of Magic had to bring in Floo powder from abroad, but the high price was too much for many wizards to afford.
The good deeds done by the American Ministry of Magic have been dug out, and everyone will naturally understand what is going on, it turns out that you want to peek into other people's wealth.
So, everyone was scolding the Ministry of Magic.
In the end, the U.S. Ministry of Magic bowed its head.
However, it is useless to apologize.
Floo disappeared out of thin air, as if it had never existed.
The entire U.S. Department of Magic was furious about this, but there was nothing they could do.
Later, the president of the Magical Congress of the United States resigned, stepped down and got out, and several officials of the Ministry of Magic involved in the matter were also eliminated.
However, in the years that followed, the United States could no longer buy Floo powder, and the Ministry of Magic had to spend a lot of money to purchase it from abroad.
At this point, the Ministry of Magic all over the world knows that this extremely mysterious company is not easy to mess with.
For this company, it's a big deal, I'm not going to do your business anymore, you have the ability to go to other countries to buy Floo powder!
It was only after a few years that everyone suddenly discovered that the company had quietly reopened on Wizard Street.
There is no doubt that this is Nicholas's revenge on the US Ministry of Magic.
Floo Bang is mysterious and powerful.
This was Catherine's first impression when she learned about it.
Catherine was even more curious about the Wildsmith family, the owners of Floo.
According to Nicholas's grandfather, he only met the then heir of Wildsmith a few decades ago, when he officially became the heir.
After he chose Catherine as his heir, it was natural that he needed to meet the new heir of the Wildsmith family again and continue this ancient contract.
As for the Wildsmith family, Nicholas actually doesn't know much either. It is only known that this family is very wealthy, and attaches great importance to knowledge, and every member of the family is a genius, but they are not direct blood relatives, but are chosen, and they all have the blood of the Wildsmith family.
On top of that, almost no one knows their identities, just as no one knows the identity of Grandpa Nicholas.
In Catherine's words, a mysterious, rich, and everybody's genius.
Although this seemed a little ridiculous to her, such an eccentric family had lasted for more than 700 years and kept the family prosperous.
Honestly, Catherine really wanted to meet the legendary Wildsmith and see if he was as great a genius as the legend suggests.
She straightened her clothes and went to meet up with his grandfather, Nicholas.
"Shall we go to the Ministry of Magic like this?" asked Catherine, confused.
"They'll use the International Floo network from the French side. Nicholas reached out and grabbed his granddaughter's arm, and appeared near the Woolworth building with her apparition.
"It should be almost time!" Nicholas took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and took his granddaughter directly to the waiting room of the International Floo Network.
During this period, Catherine's beauty attracted the attention of many men, and there was an endless stream of people who came to greet her, including her suitors.